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Winter maintenance

While there is increasing talk about global warming, there is no
doubt that winter weather is sometimes severe. In an effort to help
communities – from Scotland to Spain and from Canada to Lithuania –
deal with winter weather, Eurovia provides special teams that stay
tuned to the weather report and are ready to jump into action
quickly.

In summer, Eurovia builds up its salt stocks which it will use
to apply to roads in winter as part of snowremoval operations. When
winters are rough, roads are shut down, the cost of this “white
gold” can start to soar. Thanks to new technologies, the movement
and activities of the fleet are monitored in real time when they go
into action, gauging the progress of saltspreading and snow-removal
equipment, their on-time performance, and the volume of salt used.
The teams are ready 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to make roads
secure and ease the flow of traffic.

In certain contracts, Eurovia teams may need to decide on their
own to launch preventive operations. To help them in their
decisions, procedures based on weather forecasting systems have
been implemented. Thanks to its experience in the area of winter
maintenance, Eurovia has developed brines that have helped reduce
consumption of road salt by about 25%. Salt can be swept away by
the wind, whereas brines instantly penetrate into the roadway.